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> Its largely a variation of delta encoding

Amiga famously used a version of hardware backed delta encoding [1] to display more colours on the screen than normally possible within its memory limits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify




HAM would have worked even better if it had been in the intended hue-saturation-value (HSV) colour space as Jay Miner originally intended. Sadly, HSV support was dropped, but due to schedule constraints, there wasn't enough time to rework the design and remove HAM. I found it fascinating to learn these things long after I was no longer using my Amiga for day to day work.




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